Past, Present, & Future Cult Classics in TV and Movies

Here's a smattering of the crud in our brains...

Chris Carter on the boob tube: X-Files, Lone Gunmen, and Millenium

You all know "The Truth Is Out There." You all know that's what appeared at the end of the opening credits. But there were several times over the course of the show when it DIDN'T appear. What were the other slogans that appeared? Name at least seven, spelled correctly.
Episode 01x23 (The Erlenmeyer Flask): "Trust No One"
Episode 02x06 (Ascension): "Deny Everything"
Episode 03x25 (Anasazi): "Éí 'Aaníígóó 'Áhoot'é" (Navajo for "The Truth Is Out There")
Episode 03x10 (731): "Apology Is Policy"
Episode 04x01 (Herrenvolk): "Everything Dies"
Episode 04x04 (Teliko): "Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate"
Episode 04x10 (Terma): "E Pur Si Muove"
Episode 04x24 (Gethsemane): "Believe The Lie"
Episode 05x02 (Redux): "All Lies Lead To The Truth"
Episode 05x14 (The Red and the Black): "Resist Or Serve"
Episode 05x20 (The End): "The End"
Episode 06x03 (Triangle): "Die Wahrheit Ist Irgendwo Da Draussen" (German for "The Truth Is Out There"
Episode 06x19 (The Unnatural): "In The Big Inning"
Episode 07x02 (Amor Fati): "Amor Fati"
What's the significance of the numbers 1013 and 1121 being used all the time?
10/13 is Chris Carter's birthday; 11/21 is his wife's birthday.
"Fox" was Chris Carter's best friend's name when he was a kid. "Mulder" is his mother's maiden name. Where did Scully's surname come from?
"Scully" comes from Vin Scully, who was the sportscaster for the LA Dodgers, whom Chris Carter listened to all the time growing up.
What's the significance of Mulder having apartment #42?
42 is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, of course - Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books
A few questions about the Cancerman you love to hate...first, when did he first appear? When did he first speak? Who did he talk to and what did he say?
In the pilot. In the episode "Shapes", that dealt with werewolves on an Indian reservation. At the end of the episode, Skinner asks him if he believes Mulder's theory about the werewolves, and he says, "Of course I do."
How and when did Cancer Man FINALLY die? No, REALLY die?
In the finale, he's sitting in an Indian pueblo, and a military helicopter shoots a missile directly through the window, hitting him.
How do most of the members of Cancer Man's organization die?
They're cornered by a number of alien rebels and torched.
What brand of cigarettes did Cancer Man smoke and make famous, and what was the packaging obviously a takeoff of? Name one other well-known Fox series in which this fake cigarette brand appears.
Morleys; Marlboros
In the episode "Jose Chung's FROM OUTER SPACE", Alex Trebek plays one of a pair of Men In Black. Why Alex Trebek?
David Duchovny had just been on an episode of CELEBRITY JEOPARDY.
Who was the other man in black with him?
Jesse Ventura.
Why does Mulder always drive? Because he's the guy? Because he's the big, macho man?
No. He was just never sure Scully's little feet could reach the pedals.
In the episode where the above line happens, what drink does Mulder try to make for himself, and what unusual method does he use to try making it?
He tries to make himself a screwdriver by spooning frozen orange juice into a bottle of vodka.
Who called our dear Dana "Special TRAMP Dana Scully!" and why?
Joanne Fletcher, wife of ass-slapper Morris (played by Michael McKeon) - In Dreamland I, Morris and Mulder end up in each other's bodies during a temporary wave caused by a spaceship that passes overhead. While in Morris Fletcher's body, Mulder mentions and speaks with Scully. Mrs. Fletcher is convinced that her husband is really having an affair with Scully and screams that line at her (and calls her a homewrecker) when Dana introduces herself - in Dreamland II - as "Special Agent Dana Scully".
Scully was abducted as part of the alien/government conspiracy. What's the OTHER reason Scully was abducted?
Gillian Anderson was pregnant; they planned out a story line which hid her pregnancy, then her abduction covered the weeks off she needed to deliver the baby.
As discovered near the end of the X-Files series, what substance could the aliens not be around?
magnetite
In the episode "Hollywood, AD", Mulder and Scully investigate the "Lazarus Bowl", supposedly an artifact from Biblical times. Legend has it that a potter was at work when Jesus was raising Lazarus from the dead, and the sound of Jesus' voice - his incantation - was etched into the spinning clay pot, just like a vinyl record. When Scully investigates, she decides that the bowl is a forgery, albeit a clever one. Why is she so sure?
Scully finds that the voice in the bowl is reciting the lyrics to "I Am The Walrus." (extra credit: Actually, it's saying 'I am the bearded cow-like sea-beast', because it's in Aramaic.)
In the aforementioned episode, what does the movie Scully, as played by Duchovny's real-life bride Tea Leone, insist that the real Scully do so she can "get it right"? She has Scully do this, then sort of ignores her...
Run around in her heels
In this same silly episode, what does the movie Mulder, as played by Garry Shandling, *insist* he has to know in order to play Mulder correctly? What is the answer?
which way Mulder "hangs". At the very end he says he "dresses to the left," which sends Garry Shandling scurrying back into wardrobe.
At the very end of this episode, what do the REAL dead do?
get up and dance
What visual impairment does Mulder have, and how did it protect him once?
He is red-green colorblind. One case in a small town concerned an outbreak of hallucinations that were driving people to commit murders; Mulder discovered the local cable company was transmitting subliminal messages which triggered the hallucinations. But, since they were being transmitted in red and green, he wasn't able to see them and he was thus immune.
Tom Braidwood, best known as "Frohicke," was initially just an assistant director on the show. In what OTHER way did he become famous in the show?
During one episode, Mulder gives the name "Tom Braidwood" as an alias.
What are the FULL names of The Lone Gunmen?
John Fitzgerald Byers, Melvin Frohicke and Ringo Langly.
There's a wonderful scene in Millenium's "Jose Chung's Doomsday Directive" in which the "Scientologist" attempts to leap across a wide, wide building chasm. When Frank Black yells at him to stop, that, "You'll never make it!", what is the cult member's response and action?
He replies, "Not with that attitude!" and proceeds to leap to his death.
The X-FILES has inspired a lot of parodies, fanfiction, and other tribute -- but there's a detail from one X-FILES episode that directly inspired a television ad. What was the episode, what was the detail, and what was the ad?
In the episode "War of the Corporophages", which deals with cockroaches, a scene ends with an effect of a "cockroach" walking across the screen as if the viewer's TV were actually infested. Orkin saw the effect and used it in their next TV spot.
All right -- as best you can, explain EXACTLY what the X-Files conspiracy was all about.

Movie Babes and Studmuffins

Many are built like gods and goddesses and may be stacked out to here, but collar & cuffs often don't match. Some of these are smart; some are dumber than dirt.

This novel, made into a movie about twenty years ago, had a fertile woman trying to escape her country's church-imposed surrogate pregnancy and motherhood. Name the novel and its author. Who played this sexually imprisoned woman in the movie?
Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"; Natasha Richardson
Academy Award-nominated movie: gorgeous redhead strips for, lives with (in)famous politician. If you can answer these questions, you'll know the name of this fictionalized movie. The movie's title?
Blaze
1. ID Red's stage name and the actress who portrayed her in the movie, plus the actor she played opposite and the name and office of the politician he portrayed.
  Blaze Starr; Lolita Davidovich; Paul Newman as Earl Long, "Governor of the great state of Louisiana"
2. (extra hard) give Red's full real name.
  Fannie Belle Fleming
3. Who was this politician's better-known sibling, and what book/movie was (fictionally) about this sibling? Give the sibling's name and the title of the book/movie, plus the author of the original book.
  Earl's brother was Louisiana Governor/U.S. Senator Huey "Kingfish" Long; "All the King's Men"; Robert Penn Warren
4. Much more interesting than the above, why did Red's loverboy insist on keeping his cowboy boots on in bed?
  better traction
Movie: gorgeous brunette floors royalty; under duress, has an affair with him. By the end, he has destroyed his kingdom and her marriage. Worthy of - but not done by - Merchant-Ivory. Which movie?
The King's Whore
1. Name the two leads.
  Valeria Galino; Timothy Dalton
2. She (not he) is better known for a comedic turn with a cherry. In what movie?
  Naked Gun 33-1/3
Ever After stars Drew Barrymore as Danielle, a smart, updated Cinderella. Answer the following about this movie...
1. At one point, Danielle strips to her (old-fashioned) drawers to climb a tree. While up there, she and the prince are ambushed and the gypsies take the dress that she'd left below. How does Danielle save Henry from the gypsies?
  Danielle gets the gypsies to agree to let her leave safely, with anything she can carry. They assume she'll take her dress; she picks up Prince Henry and manages to carry him a ways. Laughing, they invite Danielle and Henry to join them for a meal. She gets her dress back too.
2. Whose name does Drew's character adopt as an alias when she pretends to be royalty?
  Comtesse Nicole de Lancret (Danielle's real mother's name)
3. Who is Danielle's fairy godmother analogue?
  Leonardo da Vinci himself
4. Which creepazoid in the movie appears elsewhere in this bonus, and how?
  Richard O'Brien (I) - aka. Riff Raff in RHPS - plays a local rich guy who the wicked stepmother plots with in the hopes of marrying/selling/enslaving Danielle to him.
Which 80s/90s action hero got a Fulbright and was going to do his MS in chemical engineering at MIT? Name the actor.
Dolph Lundgren
Are George and Keanu Reeves related? Explain how you can be sure. No points for just a yes or no.
George Reeves was a stage name; Keanu Reeves was his real name

Lesser Known Roles and Common Threads

Who are these people? Name them, give the context of each picture in as much detail as possible (but no more than a paragraph), and then explain what each person is better known as or from where they're more familiar. Some may have two or more very famous roles; name at least one.

The following people all appeared on (various) episodes of one show.

Long Ago and Far Away:

Name each person and explain what he/she was better known for/in a number of years ago.

Still going:

These people are highly regarded for very recent cultish work. Name each and his better-known cult series role.

William B. Davis (CSM on X-Files)
Robert Patrick (evil T2000 from Terminator 2)
Which show did these seven folks appear on?
Outer Limits

The Horror! The Horror!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is known about as well for the audience lines - many less than tasteful - as for the lines in the movie itself.
For the following audience lines, please sketch/describe what's happening on-screen and (when/if of interest) what's going on in the audience. Supply additional explanatory info if necessary.

"Ding-dong, asshole calling! Wanna buy some asshole cookies?"
Brad ringing castle doorbell
"You weren't supposed to see that."
Brad & Janet are at the castle door; lightning flash illuminates the many motorcycles parked outside; Riff Raff's eyes look toward the motorcycles
"The banister's lucky!"
Magenta sliding down castle banister to the front hall, just after Brad & Janet enter the castle
"Missed it, missed it, now you've got to kiss it!"
lab scene: Rocky's unveiling; someone's little wandering fingers get a bit too close to... Rocky
"It would have been easier without the pantyhose."
Janet, after supposedly being "busy", is in the elevator; camera shows clearly that her stockings are still on
"Peekaboo!"
Columbia is having an argument with Frank; at one point, she adjusts the front of her PJs down such that her nipple sticks through a rip in the fabric
"Rocky!... Dr. Scott!... Rocky!... Bullwinkle!..."
Janet & Rocky are caught in flagrante delicto in the tank; they look back and forth at the others; audience chimes in with "Bullwinkle" and "huh!" etc.
"My socks! I can't move my socks!"
Janet, Brad "stuck" to the floor in the lab by Frank's wonderful machine
"What the f*ck's a radio picture?"
near the end: Rocky climbing the "RKO Radio Picture" ...uh, tower?... at the end, poolside, to get away from Frank
"Smurf cum!"
pool scene near the end; water has made blue makeup run down Frank's face

For the following audience lines, supply the prompting line from the movie and ID who says/sings the movie line and in what part of the movie:

"He's in the box."
beginning of the movie; Brad & Janet singing at the church after the wedding: "Let's go see the man who began it..."
"Which kind, male or female?"
soon after B&J enter the castle; Riff Raff: "The master's upstairs, having one of his affairs..."
"Just one kind [or "muscle"], and Brad doesn't have it."
being introduced to Rocky; Janet: "I don't like men with too many muscles."
"Not the night but the day."
Dr. Scott singing about Eddie: "From the day he was born..."
"Yay, pain!"
same song as previous: "But he never caused her anything but pain..."

Deliver these answers dressed as an audience member should dress for the show. Your choice of role.